Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920
Biography of Annie M. V. Davenport (St. John), 1851-1941
By Katherine Petrole, Director of Education, Nashville Parthenon, Nashville, Tennessee
One of the 1896 Baltimore City Suffrage Club group who tried to register to vote; 1908-1911 Chairman, Resolutions Committee, Maryland Woman Suffrage Association
Miss Anna "Annie" Maria Vere Davenport was born in January 28, 1851 in Brooklyn, New York, to Silas (1811-1886) and Betsy (Betzy/Betsey/Bettsey) Ann St. John Davenport (1807-1900), both from Connecticut. Her father was a law agent, and Annie and her three older siblings (William St. John, Sarah Elizabeth, Silas A.) attended school. While little is known about her early and later years, she is best known for her dedication to woman suffrage in Baltimore, Maryland.
By age 40, Davenport lived as an active community member in Baltimore. She participated in various philanthropic events, such as attending the June 1891 opening of a local hospital with her mother and serving as an officer of a daycare for poor working mothers on her same block. In 1892, she purchased a home at 933 North Broadway, which she then sold to her mother for $1 and lived there together along with a servant. By 1910, Davenport was boarding a few blocks away in the home of George and Etta F. Bowman.
Davenport was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of Baltimore, and in 1896 she and a group of other members of the Baltimore City Suffrage Club--Mrs. Thomas J. Boram, Dr. Emily G. Peterson, Mrs. Jane H. Rupp, and Mrs. Amanda Peterson--argued their right to vote before the registrars--one of whom was Boram's husband--of the third precinct of the seventh ward. Despite their appeals that the United States Constitution offered precedent, Baltimore officials remained adamant that the state constitution limited suffrage to males. When their demands were denied, Davenport, Peterson, and Boram worked with well-known lawyer and prohibitionist Edwin Higgins to apply to the City Court for a writ of mandamus compelling the election officials to register them as voters. One year later, at the Baltimore Woman's Suffrage Association annual meeting she was a named the association's corresponding secretary and was appointed to a committee to compile Maryland's laws pertaining to women.
In 1898, Davenport presented at the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Conference during a symposium centering on the question, "Does the wife, mother, unmarried woman, working woman, business woman, and taxpaying woman need suffrage?" Her speech advocating for the unmarried woman was featured in the subtitle and her star address was copied into an April 1898 edition of The Baltimore Sun.
At the 1898 Maryland Woman Suffrage Association (MWSA) convention, President Mary Bentley Thomas began the fourth annual meeting with remarks honoring the 50th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention and Davenport spoke on the "Present and Future Outlook." Davenport served as President of an East Baltimore suffrage group, possibly in connection to the MWSA or the Baltimore City Suffrage Club.
She was involved in local committees for the February 1900 suffrage conference at Heptasoph's Hall in Baltimore, including conducting Baltimore city press work alongside Mrs. Lizzie York Case, Fannie H. Shackelford, and Mrs. Annie O. Janney. Davenport was featured as a local speaker at suffrage conventions in Maryland sometime between 1901-1903. In March 1903, she represented the MWSA alongside President Bentley Thomas and Baltimore City Suffrage Club President Emma Maddox Funck; the trio traveled with Funck's husband to the NAWSA annual convention in New Orleans. That same year, the Woman's Suffrage Association of Baltimore held its first regular meeting in October, where Davenport, as the Chairman of the Jail Committee, read a report updating all members.
In March 1905, Davenport began an extended trip to the western United States that lasted at least until October. Her travels included a visiting a cousin in California and attending a Susan B. Anthony Club meeting in San Francisco.
In 1906, Davenport was named Vice-President of the Baltimore City Suffrage Club along with two others: Mrs. Lizzie York Case and Mrs. Mary Baders Holton. For the 38th Annual NAWSA Convention held at the Lyric in Baltimore in February, Davenport served as a delegate from Maryland, chairman of enrollment and membership, and on the local committee as a press representative alongside Bentley Thomas and Baders Holton. At the following executive meeting in 1907, Davenport was appointed to a one-year term as Chairman of Resolutions.
Her travels continued with a February 1907 trip across the Atlantic, sailing from New York to various cities across Spain, Monaco, Algeria, Greece, Turkey, Israel, France, and Egypt.
In 1908, Davenport worked as part of the MWSA executive committee to secure the site for the state convention, where she read 19 resolutions. Her statements focused on various topics ranging from celebratory to serious: championing the organizations and political parties that supported woman suffrage, conducting holiday shopping early enough for stores to close on the holiday itself, asking the legislature to eliminate the word "male" from the Constitution, showing a marked dedication to public schools, and opposing child labor. Her Committee's work was approved, and one of the resolutions concerning the plight of English suffragists was shared with sister organizations in England. At the afternoon and evening sessions held at the WCTU headquarters, Davenport was re-elected as Chairman of the Resolutions Committee.
In late 1908 or early 1909, Davenport reported on resolutions regarding the status of suffrage for Swedish women, supporting salary increases for Baltimore County teachers, and posthumously honoring the contributions of charter member Miss Minnie P. De Valin. The resolutions passed, including a motion to share the final resolution with De Valin's surviving sister.
Davenport again read MWSA resolutions on November 22, 1909, while attending the annual state suffrage convention at the Baltimore Business College. Her statements focused on labor issues, working women, education, and legislative progress; these resolutions were adopted after slight alterations. The next day, Davenport was re-elected to chair the Resolutions Committee for the coming year.
The March 1910 MWSA executive committee meeting focused on planning for the election of local delegates, but also established a department of education led by Miss Edna A. Beveridge; Davenport concluded the meeting with a humorous reading. At a following executive meeting the next quarter, resolutions recorded by Secretary pro tem. Mrs. Emma Maddox Funck removed the Equal Suffrage League as a local partner club.
Alongside fellow Marylanders, Davenport was selected to deliver a national petition with one million signatures in favor of suffrage from April 14-19, 1910, in Washington, D. C. The women joined representatives from every state and territory, who formed a procession of approximately 60 taxis decorated with yellow streamers. Upon arriving at Congress, the Maryland delegates presented their state petition of more than 6,000 signatures to Maryland Representative John Gill and attended House and Senate hearings, which included arguments in favor of suffrage by Rev. Anna Howard Shaw. In late April, Davenport began her next trip and boarded the steamer Friedrich der Grosse headed for Bremen, Germany.
At the age of 60, Davenport married widower Irving Ira St. John (1832-1916) on August 14, 1911 in Chautauqua, New York. They are sixth cousins once removed, both related to Mary (Merwin) Collins (approximately 1575-1648). St. John lived in Indiana and served as a Presbyterian minister, founding the Crothersville Presbyterian congregation. He had five children between 1860-1873 with his first wife.
The newlyweds settled in Newton, New Jersey. Upon Irving St. John's death in 1916, Annie Davenport St. John traveled with her stepson Merle St. John to Salem, Indiana, for a final funeral in the St. John family residence before burial at Crown Hill Cemetery in Salem, Indiana.
Returning to Newton, she lived at the Merriam Home, a senior living facility operated by the Presbyterian Board of Relief for Disabled Ministers and the Widows and Orphans of Deceased Ministers, for the next 25 years. Anna "Annie" Maria Vere Davenport St. John died December 19, 1941, at age 90. She is buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Hillside, New Jersey.
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